Mobile Version

"First of all only the cellular stage could be relatively simply ported over to mobile. All the other stages will need major control scheme changes, mechanics changes and probably a ton of extra optimization etc. -- Additionally if by "mobile" you mean iphone, then that is even more complicated as we current programmers don't have macs, which are needed for iphone development (I also don't have an iphone either, but I don't know if some other programmer has one). So very unlikely, but I won't say never." - hhyyrylainen on reddit

A newer post about this: "While Godot supports iOS and Android, we would need a developer with a mac (AFAIK) to make the iOS version and probably an apple developer account. So an Android version is much more probable, however the controls and visuals would need to be tweaked a lot to make it work. Additionally to get on the Google Play store we'd need to pay for a developer account each year.

So there are a lot of challenges to make things work, however it is possible, but the return on investment doesn't seem super high because we'd have to rely on ads or some kind of demo version with a paid unlock for the full version, if we wanted to try toget back the developer account fees. I don't even know if mobile gamers would want to play a desktop first designed experience on mobile, and secondly want to play thrive with monetization in the game." - hhyyrylainen on reddit

Now that we use the Godot engine, at least an Android port should be easy-ish technically to make now, however the control scheme problem is still there. Also we likely need to have lower end graphics for phones. And finally, publishing on phones have actual fees associated with them so unless the mobile versions were to cost money, they would be a net loss in terms of income for Thrive.